![]() ![]() There is a hope and longing built into this idea - oh what I wouldn’t give to be able to shed this skin, to transform into something mighty and destructive and unstoppable, to right the wrongs I see and to live full of power. Love for family, love for community, love for ourselves. ![]() It is a story of women’s anger, but also women’s love. She deals with some very heavy things, and she is usually left to navigate them alone. I felt completely for Alex, I understood this character in my bones. The story starts in childhood with all the confusion of memories made before context. Our narrator is Alex, it is part memoir, part scientific study, part history. This book is uses the premise of “spontaneous dragoning” to rail against the silences we are forced to carry, the secrets we lock away in our hearts, the ways ignorance and fear and discomfort limit and cage us. ![]() I haven’t been shy about my love for magical realism and the way these stories force us to confront our decidedly less wondrous reality. ![]() And my goodness gracious, does Kelly Barnhill ever capture all of those feelings perfectly in this exquisite book. Because we’ve been mad, I’ve been angry my whole damn life, but it’s just now I’m finding books that mirror my own simmering fury at the world I was given. Let’s start with: if I have anything to be grateful to the former occupier of the White House for, it is the uptick in feminist rage literature. I’ve been sitting here staring at a blank screen, trying desperately to figure out the words to convey the depth and urgency of my love for this book. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The spiritual connection became stronger and stronger, Marcellus thought that this was the one thing that he was looking for in his life. It is faith that the man was looking for when he started his voyage and he never thought that he would get the chance to enjoy some romance along with it. ![]() Also, the young soldier wanted to know the history linked to the thing. His mind was full of curiosity and he wanted to know whether the robe was a genuine one or fake. When Marcellus got the robe he thought about investigating the truth about the thing. ![]() He never thought about the thing and then as a gambling price, he won the robe which was Christ’s robe. The word “spirituality” was lacking from his life, perhaps he wasn’t very interested in the thing. Working as a Roman soldier he thought that he has achieved everything and he was going higher and higher all the time. Marcellus used to serve the army from the day when he thought that he was strong enough to protect and defend Rome. ![]() ![]() ![]() They exchanged gifts and stories and believed they would live happily ever after-and in exchange for her love, Indigo extracted a promise: that her bridegroom would never pry into her past.īut when Indigo learns that her estranged aunt is dying and the couple is forced to return to her childhood home, the House of Dreams, the bridegroom will soon find himself unable to resist. Once upon a time, a man who believed in fairy tales married a beautiful, mysterious woman named Indigo Maxwell-Casteñada. "Gorgeous and ornate, this sensual fairy tale illuminates the corrosive and redemptive power of both love and lies."-Holly Black, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Book of NightĪ sumptuous, gothic-infused story about a marriage that is unraveled by dark secrets, a friendship cursed to end in tragedy, and the danger of believing in fairy tales-the breathtaking adult debut from New York Times bestselling author Roshani Chokshi. ![]() Schwab, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue ![]() Every bite is velvet, every swallow is gold, and the taste lingers like a fever dream."-V. "Chokshi's tale is as sweet as a piece of fairy fruit, and just as wicked. ![]() ![]() In one of the first chapters, Prince Myshkin tells a story of a man sentenced to death. Spoiler alert: the lying man is not Prince Myshkin. There are many unforgettable charactersĪ scene from "The Idiot" film (1958). His good will rarely seems to pay off and, to avoid spoilers, let’s say that the ending is not exactly a happy one. People around him, however, take Myshkin for an imbecile – an idiot (he does have some medical problems). In the writer’s blueprints Dostoyevsky refers to Myshkin as “Prince Christ,” and he is indeed Christ-like: full of love and forgiveness, with no touch of anger. “Dostoyevsky’s idea was to portray a perfect man, full of sympathy for everyone and able to understand everyone in the world of evil, filthy people,” the Polka website explains. The novel’s protagonist Prince Lev Myshkin is an ideal man. As Fyodor Dostoyevsky proves in The Idiot, being perfect is not a good case. “Why can’t I be perfect – a good, all-loving human being who helps everyone unselfishly?” we might ask ourselves during these uneasy times. Some people may question if they are a good or bad person, especially if hungover or after cutting someone off in traffic. ![]() ![]() "The Idiot" (1958) - a scene where Prince Myshkin arrives in Russia from Switzerland, where he had been treated from epilepsy. ![]() ![]() These are minor cavils against a skillfully written, involving fantasy. An unfortunate number of loose threads, in both characterization and resolution, provide an unsatisfying ending that leaves readers wondering if the story is really finished or if the author plans a sequel. The climax works-barely-because the deft plotting leaves little time for thought. The world-building, in which ecological, historical, and cultural elements both support and energize the plot, is masterful. The plot is great: short periods in which the characters grow and develop skills sandwiched between the violence of battles. In addition to their reality as people, they portray the beliefs of the time and lend depth to the story. ![]() The characterization proffers enjoyable ironies: Ursula becomes a warrior and a sorcerer Dan becomes a “berserker.” Secondary characters are important. Dan is a popular, smart jock, but he is also protective and empathetic. Ursula may be an outsider, but she has grit and humor. The central characters-one a six-foot-tall, overweight teenage girl, the other a short, always-doing-the-right-thing male classmate, are fully developed and likable. The other side of the fog is an alternate Britain in the time of the Roman conquest. On a field trip, British students Ursula and Dan disappear into a yellow-colored fog. ![]() ![]() ![]() James Earl Jones plays Miss Daisy’s chauffeur, Hoke Colburn, a role which earned Morgan Freeman a Golden Globe in 1989, back when the Bruce Beresford directed film won Best Picture at the Oscars. Angela Lansbury plays the titular character, Daisy Werthan, a role which had earned Jessica Tandy an Oscar. It’s a production directed by David Esbjornson that starred two stage and screen veterans in roles not all of their fans have been able to see. This theatrical production of “Driving Miss Daisy” was filmed during a 2013 tour, on a stop in Melbourne, Australia. ![]() The idea is to bring a Broadway theatrical presentation to the movie theater, so as many people as possible get a chance to see it. It’s also a movie in that it’s a filmed live stage production of the play from a tour a couple of years back starring two seasoned award-winning actors. This “Driving Miss Daisy” is a play, just like it originally was. It’s not a remake, a prequel or a sequel, either. Why? It could be because it’s the 30th anniversary of the Oscar-winning film, but this isn’t a re-release. “Driving Miss Daisy” is getting a limited engagement release in theaters from June 4th through June 10th here in the States. ![]() Produced by: Richard Moore and Jill Bilcock ![]() ![]() “When her doctor took her bandages off and led her into the garden, the girl who was no longer blind saw “the tree with the lights in it.” It was for this tree I searched through the peach orchards of summer, in the forests of fall and down winter and spring for years. ― Annie Dillard, quote from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek ![]() This is how you spend this afternoon, and tomorrow morning, and tomorrow afternoon. Squeak into a gap in the soil, turn, and unlock-more than a maple- a universe. If you can find them they shift and vanish too. ![]() We are making hay when we should be making whoopee we are raising tomatoes when we should be raising Cain, or Lazarus. ![]() The world is wilder than that in all directions, more dangerous and bitter, more extravagant and bright. ![]() It is so self-conscious, so apparently moral, simply to step aside from the gaps where the creeks and winds pour down, saying, I never merited this grace, quite rightly, and then to sulk along the rest of your days on the edge of rage. “Thomas Merton wrote, “there is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues.” There is always an enormous temptation in all of life to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for itsy-bitsy years on end. ![]() ![]() It makes it harder to follow, as Clay is also providing his own commentary. The idea of using symbols to mark where the tapes are playing or not is good, and the use of the cassette numbers and Side A or B to mark chapters is also pretty nice, but the fact that whatever Hannah is saying is marked in italics really puts me off as well. I was a bit put off by the layout of this book. Tragedy is just the one word reason as to why I'm doing that. Weirdly, I also find myself comparing this book to A Song For Ella Grey. Paper Towns by John Green was one of the first, as he trails around after this girl in the many different places she's marked and the clues she's left. Whilst reading this book, I picked up scents of a few other books that I couldn't help but compare Thirteen Reasons Why to. The only reason he got the tapes? Because he's one of the reasons Hannah killed herself. He steals a Walkman and spends the night trailing across the city listening to these tapes. I tell a lie, the parcel has actually been sent from someone different who is featured on the tapes. ![]() Inside are several tapes, each with recordings of the thirteen reasons why she killed herself. ![]() Clay Jensen receives a parcel one day from Hannah Baker, who two weeks earlier, committed suicide. ![]() ![]() Kip hallucinates, masturbates, and eventually breaks out of the basement to travel to desolate Greenland for a dramatic final confrontation. But racial, colonial, and class fissures doom the romance, and similarities between Kip and el-Adl force Kip to consider his own scarred psyche. Kip’s imaginative reveries take him to 1917 Egypt, where Forster (post- Howards End but pre- Passage to India) and tram conductor el-Adl fall intensely in love. His ex, Ben, and his friend, Concha, pound on the door to no avail. ![]() On a tight deadline to rework his manuscript, Kip barricades himself in a Brooklyn basement with crackers, bottled water, and a handgun. ![]() ![]() Forster’s Egyptian lover, Mohammed el-Adl, a writer must confront his own trauma and alienation. ![]() ![]() ![]() But when her former suitor appears at Armitage Hall, manhandling the heiress and threatening to go public with her secrets, it’s Gwyn who needs protecting. Lady Gwyn Drake has long protected her family’s reputation by hiding an imprudent affair from her youth. For fans of Sarah MacLean, Julia Quinn and Tessa Dare. and in the process find that love just might conquer all. ‘Anyone who loves romance must read Sabrina Jeffries!’ Lisa Kleypas, New York Times bestselling authorįrom New York Times bestselling author, and Queen of the sexy Regency romance, Sabrina Jeffries comes a sparkling new series about an oft-widowed mother’s grown children, who blaze through society in their quest for the truth about their fathers. If you love Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton, you’ll fall head over heels for the family at the heart of Sabrina Jeffries’ Duke Dynasty series! ![]() |